Dome lights up!
Maderno builds it,
Borromini adds lantern.
Lanfranco paints glory,
Domenichino scenes.
— Baroque team effort. No tricks, no filter, no AI shot on phone April 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM, Rome. By 📸:Abs https://t.co/cFE11p1fMH
Maderno builds it,
Borromini adds lantern.
Lanfranco paints glory,
Domenichino scenes.
— Baroque team effort. No tricks, no filter, no AI shot on phone April 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM, Rome. By 📸:Abs https://t.co/cFE11p1fMH
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Baptistery, Padua, Italy: The frescoes were painted in the 1300s by Giusto de Menabuoi. (Watch for the ceiling!)
Not surprisingly, this is part of a UNESCO world Heritage site. https://t.co/HENH4XR4mS
Not surprisingly, this is part of a UNESCO world Heritage site. https://t.co/HENH4XR4mS
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The beautifully ornate Baptistery inside the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, Italy 🇮🇹 https://t.co/LULmZGP1w6
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This is Baroque in Naples.
It’s not subtle. Not modest.
And that’s the point.
It was built to make you remember God.
Salvation.
Paradise.
And to remind everyone of the same truth:
we are fragile,
— and we are finite.
Video by 🎥: Abs https://t.co/OEAvYa0CCN
It’s not subtle. Not modest.
And that’s the point.
It was built to make you remember God.
Salvation.
Paradise.
And to remind everyone of the same truth:
we are fragile,
— and we are finite.
Video by 🎥: Abs https://t.co/OEAvYa0CCN
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“One generation will commend Your works to another.”
Michelangelo, from over 500 years ago, is still doing that. https://t.co/KOEyOE13Gr
Michelangelo, from over 500 years ago, is still doing that. https://t.co/KOEyOE13Gr
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Florence didn’t become Florence by accident.
One family treated beauty as power and investment. The Medici set the standard. Europe followed.
— And the city still lives from that legacy.
📸:Abs https://t.co/ovA4t9BmyL
One family treated beauty as power and investment. The Medici set the standard. Europe followed.
— And the city still lives from that legacy.
📸:Abs https://t.co/ovA4t9BmyL
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Any Verona lovers out there?
I just got Sheila Hale’s book on this lovely, ancient city, and I already want to go back!
(My photo.) https://t.co/TtxHKBqE6w
I just got Sheila Hale’s book on this lovely, ancient city, and I already want to go back!
(My photo.) https://t.co/TtxHKBqE6w
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Bologna, Italy: “La Dotta, La Grassa, La Rossa.”
(The Learned, The Fat, The Red): Referring to the city’s reputation for learning, with one of the world’s oldest universities, to its renowned cuisine, and to its penchant for red-hued architecture, in colors of a sunrise. https://t.co/8GzxAFf9OC
(The Learned, The Fat, The Red): Referring to the city’s reputation for learning, with one of the world’s oldest universities, to its renowned cuisine, and to its penchant for red-hued architecture, in colors of a sunrise. https://t.co/8GzxAFf9OC
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The legacy of the Medici live on!
— Photo by me, 📸:Abs. https://t.co/wu3Of1C63o
— Photo by me, 📸:Abs. https://t.co/wu3Of1C63o
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A coastal Italian town nestled near the French border.
📍 Ventimiglia, Liguria 🇮🇹 https://t.co/98n1QhtnmW
📍 Ventimiglia, Liguria 🇮🇹 https://t.co/98n1QhtnmW
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A masterpiece of Renaissance and Mannerist architecture, known for its unique pentagonal design and its perfectly circular internal courtyard.
📍 Palazzo Farnese, located in the town of Caprarola, Italy 🇮🇹 https://t.co/9VzZjNocPA
📍 Palazzo Farnese, located in the town of Caprarola, Italy 🇮🇹 https://t.co/9VzZjNocPA
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Baroque, Borromini, and natural light…
Do you really need anything else?
— Video by 🎥: Abs. Rome, St. John Lateran https://t.co/8P8h6SNALg
Do you really need anything else?
— Video by 🎥: Abs. Rome, St. John Lateran https://t.co/8P8h6SNALg
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Beauty captivates without the need for explanations or studies.
If something requires justification or analysis to be considered beautiful, then it is not beautiful.
— No AI, No filter. Just Beauty👇
Photo by 📸:Abs https://t.co/vmydwQPom1
If something requires justification or analysis to be considered beautiful, then it is not beautiful.
— No AI, No filter. Just Beauty👇
Photo by 📸:Abs https://t.co/vmydwQPom1
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Imagine arriving home like this…
No gate.
No rush.
— Just a road and trees older than you.
Montalcino, Toscana. 🎥:Abs. https://t.co/TjHs8EeCEi
No gate.
No rush.
— Just a road and trees older than you.
Montalcino, Toscana. 🎥:Abs. https://t.co/TjHs8EeCEi
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Just a simple chamber among the many in the Pitti Palace,
— as in this case, a lineage may one day end… but the legacy of the Medici will live on!
Photo by me, 📸:Abs. https://t.co/RkKRsMPCRZ
— as in this case, a lineage may one day end… but the legacy of the Medici will live on!
Photo by me, 📸:Abs. https://t.co/RkKRsMPCRZ
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This is Workmanship. https://t.co/1CpMNvIzUV
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When useful things were beautiful: A tiller from a 17th century Genoese galley ship.
(my photo.) https://t.co/OEPe5i8Xxj
(my photo.) https://t.co/OEPe5i8Xxj
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This is Milanese Renaissance sculpture.
Precise
This column.
This anatomy.
This restraint.
Christ in the column was carved by Cristoforo Solari, chief engineer of the Duomo.
They belong to the same mind. By 🎥:Abs https://t.co/yC4SiBBH98
Precise
This column.
This anatomy.
This restraint.
Christ in the column was carved by Cristoforo Solari, chief engineer of the Duomo.
They belong to the same mind. By 🎥:Abs https://t.co/yC4SiBBH98
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The stunning Chiesa del Gesù di Casa Professa in Palermo, Sicily 🇮🇹 https://t.co/6S9BAgXFne
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The dome, the coffers, and the oculus are structural decisions that shape light, weight, and space.
This place was built for worship long before Christianity l,
— And it never stopped being sacred.
Video by 🎥:Abs https://t.co/SziC2Rz7EE
This place was built for worship long before Christianity l,
— And it never stopped being sacred.
Video by 🎥:Abs https://t.co/SziC2Rz7EE
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